While the article makes some good points, I think it misses one of the more fundamental issues with Ellen Pao vs. Reddit I saw repeated again and again in comment sections: you cannot promote a single community that both advocates free speech and hands-off admins while trying to create "safe spaces" that protect people from hate speech. The ideology of reddit allowed racist, sexist, and generally asshole behavior to find like minds and propagate. I don't think it is an inevitable result of a larger community. For example, Snapzu is very clear they don't want hateful comments on this site, regardless of free speech rules. Even if the community gets huge, if the admins are present and active to enforce that core tenet I simply don't see Snapzu going the way of reddit.
While the article makes some good points, I think it misses one of the more fundamental issues with Ellen Pao vs. Reddit I saw repeated again and again in comment sections: you cannot promote a single community that both advocates free speech and hands-off admins while trying to create "safe spaces" that protect people from hate speech. The ideology of reddit allowed racist, sexist, and generally asshole behavior to find like minds and propagate. I don't think it is an inevitable result of a larger community. For example, Snapzu is very clear they don't want hateful comments on this site, regardless of free speech rules. Even if the community gets huge, if the admins are present and active to enforce that core tenet I simply don't see Snapzu going the way of reddit.